WYZR

WYZR
City of license	Bethany, West Virginia
Frequency	88.1 MHz
Format	NPR, Jazz
ERP	1,100 watts
HAAT	125 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	4954
Transmitter coordinates	40°12′58.00″N 80°33′31.00″W / 40.2161111°N 80.5586111°W / 40.2161111; -80.5586111
Former callsigns	WVBC (?-2013)
Owner	Pittsburgh Public Media
Website	wyzr.org

WYZR (88.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bethany, West Virginia, USA, and serving the greater Pittsburgh area. The station is owned by Pittsburgh Public Media.^[1] WYZR is run by former staff members of the former WDUQ (which was sold in 2011 by Duquesne University and is now WESA, broadcasting a mostly NPR news/talk format with a small portion of jazz remaining), and broadcasts a jazz format. The station previously operated under the callsign WVBC and was a service of Bethany College, a private liberal arts college in the town of Bethany.

WYZR officially launched on September 1, 2013,^[2] as a result of a November 2012 announcement by Pittsburgh Public Media (a group who unsuccessfully bid on WDUQ with the intent to retain its news-jazz-NPR format as is) to purchase the license of WVBC-FM as a pretext to returning jazz to Pittsburgh airwaves in partnership with the Pittsburgh Jazz Channel, an online jazz radio station founded by the former WDUQ staffers shortly after the WDUQ sale and format change. The WVBC sale finalized in May 2013.

References

↑ "WYZR Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "Jazz station set to launch: 88.1 WYZR-FM". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. August 30, 2013. Retrieved September 1, 2013.

External links

WYZR official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WYZR

Radio-Locator information on WYZR

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WYZR

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